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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)Re: H340 HDD spinning constantly in USB mode? (and general disk spin time question)
From: Andreas Stemmer <groovingandi_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:51:44 +0100 Mike Hodson wrote: > To me, for the year and some now that I've used Rockbox, I was under > the impression that this controlled how much audio was buffered- not > how often the buffer was refilled. I've wondered on numerous > occasions, "if I set the buffer to 10 minutes, will I have enough > memory to store that much audio?" I think you misunderstood Paul's explanation. Setting the anti-skip buffer to 5 seconds doesn't mean that the buffer is refilled every 5 seconds. It means that the buffer is refilled 5 seconds before the music would stop. In general, you want to have zero anti-skip buffer, i.e. spin up the disk as late as possible before running out of buffered data. The anti-skip buffer is the safety margin you have in this case (for the price of battery life of course). > Thanks for this info- I will set mine to 10m now (also an H3xx) This is not a good idea if you want to get decent runtime. Actually I don't know why anybody would want to have an anti-skip buffer of 10 mins. Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2008-11-24 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |